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...concentrated on each of the Democrats' traditional constituencies: organized labor, blacks, Jews, blue-collar workers, women and teachers. He appealed to many of them last week in thoroughly Democratic Chicago. "This Administration's position on women is as wrong as it can possibly be," he told a luncheon of professional women. To a group of senior citizens in a Jewish neighborhood, he praised Israel for its handling of the inquiry into the massacre of Palestinians in Lebanon ("I say God bless Israel for her example") and criticized Reagan's approach to Social Security reform as "unfair...
Some gems from Thursday's pre-Beanpot luncheon at the Garden...
...Although the blast from 1,000 Ibs. of TNT would probably have only scarred the marble face of the monument, it could have sent out a concussive wave creating an arc of destruction from the White House to the Potomac. Seven nearby museums were evacuated, and a White House luncheon given by President Reagan was moved out of the room facing the monument...
...Americans and the Soviets met in Moscow's new International Trade Center, financed primarily by U.S. banks and built with American materials. One buffet luncheon was organized by Armand Hammer, 84, the chairman of Occidental Petroleum, who knew Lenin and who has been doing business with the Soviets for six decades. Wine and Georgian champagne flowed. Guests dined on mounds of black caviar, crab claws and smoked fish...
...only sour note of the executives' visit came during one luncheon. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Kornienko, in a 90-minute diatribe, lashed out against U.S. imperialism and economic policies. It struck newcomers to U.S.Soviet trade talks as rather inappropriate, but older hands took it all in stride as standard Soviet bluster...